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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	day_n	night_n	time_n	11,545	5	3.7585	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41680	The Academy of complements, or, A new way of wooing wherein is variety of love-letters, very fit to be read of all young men and maids, that desire to learn the true way of complements.	J. G. (John Gough), fl. 1640.	1685 (1685)	Wing G1407; ESTC R40502	10,475	26

I have known the World 〈◊〉 are not for it nor for any thing but you If therefore all I have may please you and myself to love and honour you make my comfort your contentment and I will seek no other Paradise in the World Thus hoping that reason in your favour will effect the hope of my affection leaving you to your self to be your self I rest Yours or not mine J. C. Her Answer SIR I Could never see you but in a Letter I should delight much in your presence but contraries are not correspondent A gray head and a green mind fit not your perswasions were forcible were not your self of too much weakness but though for your good Will I thank you yet for nothing will I be indebted to you no not for a World would I be troubled with you for as our years so I fear our fancie will be indifferent and the patience moving choler may breed anger when to be an Old mans Darling is a kind of a curse to nature You say well who can love that know not how to like when the senses are uncapable of their comfort what is imagination but a Dream A blind Man can judge no colour A Deaf Man hath not skill in Musick a Dum Man no Eloquence and an Old Man little feeling in lo●es passion For my Suitors they suit my time and serve their own and for their worth I shall judge of the most worthy Now for their wits if they lose not their own fleeces let them gather wool where they can but for your love I will not venture on it lest being too old it be not sweet and for my young Suitors I hope I shall take heed of a shadowned sowerness As for fortune while vertue governs affection I will not fear my felicity So hoping your town reason will perswade you to have patience with your passion and leave me to my better comfort meaning to be as you wish me my self and no other I rest Not yours if my own P. M. On Maids Inconstancy SHall I weep or shall I sing I know not best which fits mourning ●f I weep I ease my brain ●f I sing I sweeten pain Weeping I 'll sing and singing weep To see how Maids no love can keep On Virginity Jewels being lost are found again This never this lost but once is lost for ever To his Mistress When first I saw thee thou didst sweetly play The gentle Thief and stole my heart away Render me mine again or leave thy own Two are too much for thee since I have none But if thou wilt not I will swear thou art A sweet-fac'd Creature with a double heart Posies for Rings and other pleasant things As I expect so let me find A faithful heart a constant mind God hath kept my heart for thee Grant that our love may faithful be God hath thee chosen a Mate for me I 'll honour him in loving thee Such liking in my choice I find That none but Death shall change my mind Innumerable are the Stars I see But in my heart no Star like thee Had I not spoke My heart had broke I fancy none But thee alone Heart and Hand At your Command Where Hearts agree No strife can be A SONG He that will court a wench that 's coy that 's proud that 's peevish and antick Let him be careless to sport and toy And as peevish as she is frantick Laugh at her and slight her Flatter her and spight her Rail and commend her again It is the way to woo her If that you mean to come close to her Such Girls will love such Men. He that will court a Wench that is mild That is so soft and kind of behaviour Let him kindly wooe her Not roughly come to her 'T is the way to win her favour Give her Kisses plenty She 'll take them were they twenty Stroak her and kiss her again It is the way to wooe her If that you mean to come close to her Such Girls do love such men He that will court a Wench that is mad That will squeak and cry out if you handle her Let him Kiss and fling Till he makes the house ring 'T is the only way to tame her Take her up and towse her Salute her and rouse her Then kiss her and please her again It is the only way to wooe her If that you mean to come close to her Mad Girls do love Mad Men. Another Song My Mistress loves no Woodcocks yet loves to pick the bones My Mistress loves some Jewels and other Precious Stones My Mistress loves no hunting yet loves to hear the Horn My Mistress loves not Irish yet loves to see men Born My Mistress loves no Wrestling yet loves to take a fall My Mistress loves not all things yet loves my Master withal On the Representing of a Nosegay of Roses with a Nettle in it Such is the Posie love composes A stinging Nettle mixt with Roses On the representing of Ring with a Picture and a Jewel on it Nature hath fram'd a Gem beyond compare The World 's the Ring but you the Jewel are On the Presenting of a pair of Gloves These will keep your hands from burning Whilst the Sun is swiftly turning But who can any veil devise To shield my heart from your fair eyes The Butler and the Chamber-Maid having passed the night merrily towards morning enter into a pleasant discourse ad follows Butler LOok by this light day the time has stoln from us strangely Chamber-Maid By this light sayest thou 't is day not by this by t'other 't is indeed Butler Thou art such another piece of temptation my Lord raves by this time for his cup of Purl Chamber-Maid Fye upon thee thou art as fearful as a young Colt boglest at every thing as if Lovers had considered hours I 'll peep in Butler I am as weary of this Wench as if I were married to her she hangs upon me like an Ape upon a Horse she is as common too as a Barbers-glass conceit too like Dye-dapper Chamber-Maid There 's no body within my Lady sleeps this hour longer at the least A Letter of discontent after the falling out of two Lovers Most discourteous and painted Friend IT 's the custom of Lovers after the breach of their League and amity to send back those Gratuires which formerly passed as Tokens of their natural affections You have taken up the fashion and believe me I abhor any longer to have nearness with one of your qualification who for meer trifles can dissolve the knot of Friendship and shake hands with familiarity For know hat your memory which was something dear in my thoughts is now abhorr'd seeing that the firmness and stability of affection you have so carelesly brought to annihilation I may paral●el my present condition to the state of the Sun when pitchy Clouds environing him round about seem to extinguish his splendor But time the perfecter of all Terrestial things may in due season impart a lustre correspondent to my hopes and suitable to my disposition till when I will scorn the blasts of adversity and all those who having little or no merit are endowed by the dispensation of the Owl-eyed Goddess Fortune with large possessions However if I can find no better to converse and spend my time with than your self I will turn Momus and for ever hate the society of Men but having a better Opinion of the generality I casheer you with this Ultimum Vale and rest A Stranger T. P. A Virgin to her Parents that would have her matched to one she cannot love Most dear Parents I Beseech you let the Rules of nature be so prevalent with you as not to marry me to the Man you design but if you do resolve that I shall marry let it be to one that I shall love or to my Grave be not over-ruled by the thought of Avarice lest you become inhumane to your own blood and make me Your sad sorrowful and afflicted Daughter L. C. FINIS